Bad things really do happen to good people. It's just a sad fact of life.

Rudy Eugene, a man who is more famously known as the Miami "Cannibal" or "Zombie", wasn't always interested in eating human flesh. In fact, he was very spiritual and attended bible study just TWO DAYS before stripping down and viscously attacking Ronald Edward Poppo.

His friends described him as a devout Christian who would frequently send inspirational religious messages through texts or social networking sites.

Unfortunately, his faith couldn't stop whatever powerful drug took over his mind once it entered his system and Poppo is now fighting for his life as a result.

It's hard to believe something like this is real, even with visual proof.

As we've reported, a man named Rudy Eugene was shot dead by authorities when he was was discovered chewing the flesh off of homeless man Ronald Poppo this past weekend. It turns out that The Miami Herald captured the horrific 18-minute attack on a surveillance camera!

WARNING:While this is not close-up footage, and therefore, not visually explicit nor graphic, it is still EXTREMELY HORRIFIC and DISTURBING, and we urge viewers to take that into serious consideration before choosing whether or not to click play.

Click (above) to view a condensed version, in which you can see Eugene stripping Poppo of his clothes, the cyclist who called the police, and then the authorities shooting him down.

We reported earlier on Rudy Eugene, the Miami man who was shot dead by police when he discovered naked and eating the face off of another person, and sadly, we now know the victim to be 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, a homeless man who is now fighting for his life at Jackson Memorial Hospital with nothing but his lips, beard, and chin left.

More bizarre, however, is the information slowly coming out about the 31-year-old perpetrator, a majority of which is from his former classmates at North Miami Beach High School, who knew him as an "easy-going" young man who stayed out of trouble until he later began experimenting with drugs.

Well, if this doesn't send chills up your spine, it should at least project your lunch straight up your esophagus!

A Miami man, now identified as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene, was shot dead by police Saturday when he was discovered naked on the MacArthur Causeway CHEWING the flesh off of another unidentified man, who is now in critical condition in the hospital and missing 80% of his face, nose, and mouth!

And if that isn't scary and horrifying enough, it only gets more worse.

According to eye-witness reports, a police officer commanded him to stop, and when he didn't, authorities open-fired. And according to Larry Vega, who was present at the time:

"My metabolism actually changed like crazy this year. I have Hashimoto's disease. It's a thyroid disease, and it's now been two years since taking the medication for it, so for the VS show I didn't want to lose any more weight, I just want to have muscles in the right place, and if my butt can get a little perkier, then that's good."